"She lied in her deposition. She lied to the JQC. She lied on the stand," said Sunrise City Commissioner and state prosecutor Sheila Alu.

According to the Bar, she exchanged 949 phone calls and 471 text messages with Scheinberg during the trial of Omar Loureiro, whom Gardiner gave the death penalty.

Alu said the two went to a restaurant on Las Olas and discussed the trial.

"They sat down at the table and they started talking about a trial they were in," said Alu, who was sitting at the table with the pair. "I had just taken the ethics course of the Bar exam and I believed what they told us to do."

The allegations led to an investigation. Gardiner and Scheinberg denied discussing the case or having a close relationship, but two more witnesses came forward and testified to Alu's version of the events and the judge’s phone records revealed thousands of texts between the two.